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• Declaration concerning Firearms, Ammunition and other related materials (2001)

  Date Signed: 2001-03-09

  Type: Documents & Publications, Declarations

  Themes: Politics, Defence & Security, State Security, Public Security

  
  

  Recognising the negative impacts that illicit manufacture, use, trafficking, and stockpiling of firearms and ammunition have on a population, SADC Member States signed the Declaration Concerning Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials in the Southern African Development Community.

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• Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan

  Date Signed: 2001-03-01

  Type: Documents & Publications, Key Strategies

  Issues: Issues

  Themes: Themes, Finance

  
  

  The Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan of SADC is a comprehensive 15–year strategic roadmap, which provides the strategic direction for achieving SADC’s long term social and economic goals. It also provides the SADC Secretariat and other SADC institutions with clear guidelines on SADC’s approved social and economic priorities and policies and therefore, enhancing their effectiveness in discharging their facilitating and coordinating role. It was approved by SADC Summit in 2003 and its effective implementation began in 2005.

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• Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses (2000)

  Date Signed: 2000-08-07

  Type: Documents & Publications, Protocols

  Themes: Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Natural Resources, Water

  
  

  As much of Southern Africa relies on agriculture for its subsistence, water is of special concern for SADC. Many watercourses in the region are shared among several Member States, a situation that demands their development in an environmentally sound manner. To this end, SADC initially passed its Protocol on Shared Watercourses in the Southern African Development Community on 28th August 1995, which was revised on 7th August 2000.

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